[rwfromkansas]

"You did not choose me, but I chose you."

[ahadams2]

absolutely also true! The apparent paradox here has to do with the fact that we do NOT comprehend things in the same way God does. Remember omniscience and omnipresence means that God is everywhere and every*when* simultaneously. Moreover He is both inside of and beyond all space and time. Therefore, He knows everything always - which means He already knows which way we're going to choose. That does NOT mean that our free will is abrogated, but rather that although Christ died once for all, He knew that not everyone would choose to follow Him. Even so *He* *chose* to die for us anyway.

The problem some people have with this is that they attempt to see a cause-effect relationship in a situation where God already knew/knows the end results. God does not change, nor does he contradict himself, therefore He gifted us human beings with free will and it would have been self-contradictory if He had subsequently taken it away...or do you deny the validity of Rev. 3:20?